TVC E. It is common knowledge that children are the future of every country.
Lets turn the tables around today, allow your children give you a treat. Let them prepare you Lunch!
They are the future of a great nation only if given a solid foundation on which a better society can be built. The direction of a nation therefore can be gauged by the importance that nation places on its children and youths.
A child in Nigeria is any youth/citizen between the ages of 0 to 17 years. At that phase, the individual is not responsible for themselves, and therefore have to be taken care of by parents or guardians. In organised countries, there are adequate welfare policies like monthly stipends to aid the child’s spending rights even as adequate healthcare and education are provided for free during those formative years.
Various governments around the world designated a day, different in each country, as Children’s Day, to encourage and bring joy to children through funfair activities as well as to draw the attention of society to children’s issues. In Nigeria, May 27th each year has been set aside to celebrate the young ones who are the future leaders and to highlight the dignity of children, their need for love, care, and respect. It’s also a day to instill in the children a sense of independence and national pride.
Meanwhile, every year, Children’s Day is celebrated with great enthusiasm in different countries of the world and at different dates. It was first proclaimed by the World Conference for the Well-being of Children in 1925 and then established universally in 1954.
The idea of Universal Children’s Day was proposed by Mr. V.K. Krishna Menon and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1954. Till the 1959 it was universally celebrated in the month of October.
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